and birches of temperate broadleaf forests common in Europe and much of the United States. Where's the Carbon? Scientific interest in the new map goes far beyond curiosities about tree height.

A team of ecologists, biologists, geographers, geologists and Earth scientists from across Europe, working with ... vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens, Science ...

The largest, however, is the Bialowieza Forest, the oldest temperate forest in Europe. Once covering much of the continent, there are over 350,000 acres of the 12,000-year-old forest remaining ...

In Europe's temperate forests, less common plant species are being replaced by more widespread species. An international team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity ...

April 13 (UPI) --Plant diversity in the forests of Europe is not what it used to be. Rare plant species are being replaced by more common species at an alarming rate, according to a new study ...

Moreover, claims the report, temperate and boreal forests absorb about as much carbon every year as is released by tropical deforestation, thus slowing the speed of climate change. The report covers ...

Given this, people might forget that forests in the temperate areas—those found in large parts of North America, Europe and higher latitudes in Asia and Australia—also have the power to help ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich have now systematically examined all low-greenness events in the temperate and Mediterranean forests of Europe over the past 21 years (2002–2022). The resulting study ...

Before Homo sapiens arrived ... that the closed-forest model commonly used in restoration does not match the evolutionary history or ecological preferences of most temperate forest plants ...